The Ministry of Justice is not carrying out its duties as the guardian of right and justice in all spheres of State life, Deputy Dr. Rosmarin complained, when as the official reporter for the Legal Commission, he introduced today in the Sejm the budget of the Ministry of Justice. The laws regulating citizenship rights have not yet been enacted, he said, and those laws on the State Books which are in contradiction to the Constitution have not been abolished. It had been a matter of satisfaction to them to read in the press recently that the Ministry intended to proceed shortly to deal with these laws.
Deputy Jan Pilsudski, of the Government bloc, objected to the attitude adopted by Deputy Rosmarin on the Czarist restriction laws. The whole attention of the Government, he said, is needed for the purpose of enacting laws which will benefit the entire population of the country and not only the citizens of one particular nationality. In such questions as that of the Czarist restrictions against the Jewish population, the initiative, he said, must come from the Deputies concerned.
Deputy Rosmarin replied that several proposals have been presented on this question, but they have not been considered.
Deputy Cialkasz of the Polish Socialist Party interjected: “And meanwhile the session of the Sejm will come to an end.”
Deputy Wygodsky, speaking for the Club of Jewish Deputies on the budget of the Ministry of Education during the same sitting, said that for the Jews, the Ministry of Public Education has been converted from a Ministry of Enlightenment into a Ministry for spreading darkness. “So far,” he said, “our fight by loyal means to obtain our rights has achieved nothing, and that is why the voices which say that it will never achieve anything are growing in number. The Jewish people’s schools still do not enjoy public rights and they receive no Government aid. The children in the Polish People’s Schools are receiving instruction without fees, but the Jewish parents have to pay for the education of their children. In the secondary school the numerus clausus is still applied. The He brew and Yiddish secondary schools have no public rights, and the university enforces a numerus clausus. At the medical faculty,the question of Jewish corpses is brought up ni such a form that it is impossible for Jews to obtain a medical training.
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